Steve 16:9
PA2V2
On my quest for a great sounding music system that doesn't bother the rest of my family, on the suggestion of Canadapt here on flickr, who saw my "Cans" shot, I picked up a headphone amp -- a PA2V2, made right here in Canada (Brampton, ON) by an electronics engineer.
For you audiophiles, the headphone amp reduces the demand on the iPods mediocre amplification system, and improves bass (tighter), improves imaging, better high end, and gives a smoothness. Lots of reviews on the internet from seriously crazy audiophile junkies relate audio quality to cost. This amp is a serious value, and of serious quality. In fact, if you take the price, as you're buying direct from the manufacturer, and increase it with a marketing cost, a distributor cost, a retail cost, you're probably looking at something that would normally retail for about four times the cost. At that, it's a relatively expensive micro amp -- so it just indicates what's probably really inside the guts of the retailed and marketed micro amps -- marginal components. So, like everything on the internet, take any negative reviews with a grain of salt.
This is an extremely reasonably priced piece of electronics gear -- or let me put it this way -- the headphones and the amp cost less than the iPod.
For those of you seeking musical nirvana for relatively little money (less than the price of a modest DSLR gets you the iPod, the headphones and the amp), this is an awesome rig.
PA2V2
On my quest for a great sounding music system that doesn't bother the rest of my family, on the suggestion of Canadapt here on flickr, who saw my "Cans" shot, I picked up a headphone amp -- a PA2V2, made right here in Canada (Brampton, ON) by an electronics engineer.
For you audiophiles, the headphone amp reduces the demand on the iPods mediocre amplification system, and improves bass (tighter), improves imaging, better high end, and gives a smoothness. Lots of reviews on the internet from seriously crazy audiophile junkies relate audio quality to cost. This amp is a serious value, and of serious quality. In fact, if you take the price, as you're buying direct from the manufacturer, and increase it with a marketing cost, a distributor cost, a retail cost, you're probably looking at something that would normally retail for about four times the cost. At that, it's a relatively expensive micro amp -- so it just indicates what's probably really inside the guts of the retailed and marketed micro amps -- marginal components. So, like everything on the internet, take any negative reviews with a grain of salt.
This is an extremely reasonably priced piece of electronics gear -- or let me put it this way -- the headphones and the amp cost less than the iPod.
For those of you seeking musical nirvana for relatively little money (less than the price of a modest DSLR gets you the iPod, the headphones and the amp), this is an awesome rig.